Sending the Sports World to Therapy Since 2013.
Shockers Are #5; Can They Keep Winning? At the rate that Wichita State is winning these days, they’re going to need to find another nickname for their basketball team. Because let’s be frank: the Shockers aren’t shocking anyone. (Ah, the apt pun.) In 2013, Wichita State was the surprise #8 seed that broke through the […]
Trey Burke, Jim Larranaga win 2013 AP NCAA Awards The Associated Press handed out its two most prestigious college basketball awards on April 4th, and both went to deserving honorees. Trey Burke, sophomore point guard for the Final Four-bound Michigan Wolverines, was named AP National Player of the Year. Jim Larranaga, the head coach of […]
Wichita State Shocks Gonzaga, 76-70 Just a few days ago, one of our lead writers told you all not to give up on Gonzaga. Well, tonight Gonzaga gave up on the NCAA Tournament. (We’re not throwing our writer under the bus, by the way. There’s a reason he’s a lead writer here at the MOB; he […]
La Salle + Ole Miss = Bracket in the Trash That’s all the math you need to know. After Harvard shocked the college basketball world by beating 3-seed New Mexico 68-62 last night, no one thought the West Region could get any more screwed up. And then Friday afternoon happened. Ole Miss became the third 12-seed […]
Harvard: Finally, a Cinderella. So, what happened to the “most unpredictable” tournament ever? Well – on the first day, up until 12:20am (which, technically is the second day of the tournament), it appeared that this was a chalk tournament. There were no surprises. There were no monumental upsets. There were no Ohio’s taking down the mighty Hoyas of Georgetown. There […]
The 2013 NCAA Tournament is shaping up to be by far the most fascinating tournament we’ve seen in decades, if not ever. From Tuesday, March 18th through the National Championship game on Monday, April 8th, college basketball fans will be treated with a spectacular display of drama, upsets, and displays of skills and athleticism. But that’s March Madness every year. What […]
Quick, tell me your favorite game from the 2012-13 NCAA college basketball regular season. Go ahead. I’ll give you a minute. In the meantime, I’m going to go watch some old videotapes of Vince McMahon‘s XFL. Give up? That’s okay, I struggled to pick one as well – and when I did, it was a […]
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